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单词 to cry creak
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to cry creak
P1. to cry creak: to confess oneself beaten or in error; to give up the contest; to give in. Obsolete. (Cf. to cry craven at craven adj. 1b, to cry (or say) creant at creant adj.1 1.)
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > be defeated or overthrown [verb (intransitive)] > confess oneself beaten
to cry creak?1562
to give, lay down, yield the bucklers1592
to cry cravena1634
holler1845
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)] > give way or give in
benda1400
sink?a1513
to give over1530
to cry creak?1562
yield1576
to hold up1596
succumb1604
to give in1616
to hoist, lower, strike the topsaila1629
to cry cravena1634
to give up or cross the cudgels1654
incumb1656
to fall in1667
to knock under1670
to knock under board, under (the) table1692
to strike underc1730
knuckle down1735
to throw (also chuck) up the sponge1860
chuck up (the sponge)1864
to throw in one's hand1893
to sky the wipe (or towel)1907
to drop one's bundle1915
to throw (chuck, or toss) in the towel1915
to buckle up1927
?1562 Thersytes sig. A.iii I woulde make the knaues to crye creke.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 22/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I When the prefixed daie [for the combat] approched neere, Vescy..beganne to crye creake, and secretely sayled into Fraunce.
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 42v When tilth plows breake, poore cattle cries creake.
1582 T. Watson Passionate Cent. of Loue i, in Poems (1870) 37 I now cry creake that ere I scorned loue.
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 164 This Crauen Cocke, after..crowing a Conquest, being ready presently to Cry Creake.
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